46 papers
Benchmarking Multi-Modal Graph-based Social Media Popularity Prediction
Utkarsh Sahu, Zhisheng Qi, Li Zhu +4
Social media popularity prediction aims to forecast the future reach or influence of online content from early-stage observations. Accurate prediction enables key downstream applic…
CAVEWOMAN: How Large Language Models Behave Under Linguistic Input and Output Compression
Morayo Danielle Adeyemi, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt
"Talk short. Drop grammar. Save token." This caveman style is widely promoted as a way to cut inference cost, but whether it actually saves anything depends on which channel (the u…
RL-Index: Reinforcement Learning for Retrieval Index Reasoning
Yongjia Lei, Nedim Lipka, Zhisheng Qi +7
Retrieving external knowledge is crucial for real-world tasks but remains difficult when queries and relevant knowledge are linked by implicit reasoning (e.g., shared theorems or c…
Benchmarking Knowledge-Extraction Attack and Defense on Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Zhisheng Qi, Utkarsh Sahu, Li Ma +9
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a cornerstone of knowledge-intensive applications, including enterprise chatbots, healthcare assistants, and agentic memory manageme…
TRACE: Trajectory Reasoning through Adaptive Cross-Step Evidence Aggregation for LLM Agents
Vijitha Mittapalli, Shreyaa Jayant Dani, Satya Srujana Pilli +7
Autonomous LLM agents can pursue hidden malicious objectives through sequences of individually benign actions, making sabotage difficult to detect using standard trajectory-level m…
Multimodal Music Recommendation System using LLMs
Srikar Prabhas Kandagatla, Sreehitha R. Narayana, Chandana Magapu +6
Music recommendation systems typically treat songs as opaque tokens, relying on collaborative interaction histories which overlooks semantic or acoustic content. Prior work has exp…